Both attacks were reportedly believed to be the work of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
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The official said that at least seven people were wounded in the assault in Diyarbakir, majority believed to be police officers.
Eight people, including police officers, were killed and several others injured on August 10 in two separate bomb attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, according to the country’s transport minister.
The PKK, also on Wednesday, carried out a separate attack in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province targeting another police vehicle, the government said. NTV television said 25 people were wounded in the Mardin attack and 13 people wounded in Diyarbakir.
Clashes between the PKK and Turkey’s security forces resumed a year ago after a tenuous cease-fire collapsed and the PKK has frequently targeted police or military with roadside explosives or vehicle bombs.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK first took up arms in 1984.
Wednesday’s attacks, however, came as the country is still reeling from a violent coup attempt on July 15, that killed at least 270 people. It is proscribed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the US.
The attack targeted a bus carrying police officers, the sources said.
According to the Dogan news agency, the earlier attack on Turkish military personnel was carried out with improvised explosives and rockets fired from across the Iraq border.
The government has vowed there will be no let-up in the fight against the PKK even in the wake of the coup.
Since then, more than 600 Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK militants have been killed, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency. Human rights groups say hundreds of civilians have also been killed.
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Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast has seen its worst violence in two decades since the PKK abandoned a 2-1/2-year ceasefire last year.
